July 
Each of nature’s works must have its place, and 
it is man’s fault or his great misfortune, if his 
view of it is not at such an angle as to reveal 
therein a consistent element of the whole. 
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A bird’s range of speculation is necessarily 
limited, but about such matters as lie within 
its province it has very decided opinions. It 
would be interesting (possibly not flattering) to 
learn its estimate of mankind ; for perhaps there 
is no other creature that recognizes more quick- 
ly and keenly the difference between a human 
being and any other animal, and in its constant 
discrimination there is ground for clear convic- 
tion. 
Man is pleased to recognize among the evi- 
dences of his supremacy in the world an un- 
doubted acknowledgment of it in the lower 
animals. Even a fierce wild beast may stand in 
awe of him, and occasionally it is reported that 
a savage monster has quietly walked away, 
rather than try to endure his steady and intrepid 
gaze. Some are so sanguine as to believe that 
every ferocious quadruped would similarly quail 
and retire, were it not that in almost every such 
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